My Book of Easy Telling Time: Learning about Hours and Half-Hours

Great Book For Learning About Telling Time!The Kumon series of books works by empowering children to succeed on their own. The books get successively more difficult as they build upon skills learned from the previous pages, so that by the end of the book the child has a sense of accomplishment and be ready to move on to the next level. The instructor is more of a mentor or coach than a teacher in a classroom.The Easy Telling Time book is designed to help teach the hour and half-hour. It starts off pretty easily with it asking to first trace along the numbers of a clock. It shows you what the numbers are supposed to be, you just fill them in. Then page by page, it gets progressively more difficult. It teaches about the hour hand and asks the child to fill in what time it is, then it gives you the time, but the hour hand has to be drawn. By the middle of the book, both hands are missing and need to be drawn in. Then it goes on to the minute hand, but instead of explaining it as 30 minutes, it uses the term “half past,” which may be a little confusing if you’re not used to talking this way around the house. I’ve been explaining it to my 3.5 year old as 30 minutes and he seems to have picked up on it fairly easily. By the end of the book, it gives you a bunch of clocks of both hour and half-hour times and asks you to write in the correct time of each.Highly recommended workbook for learning how to tell time, learning numbers 1-12 and pre-writing skills!